Senator Cash said the figures showed there are jobs out there for those who want them.

"We have an economy of opportunity and employers are screaming out for workers who are eager for a job," she said in a statement on Monday.

The data comes as the government pushes back against a growing chorus of calls to increase the Newstart unemployment benefit.

"Our focus will always be to get people off welfare and into work. Taxpayers expect nothing less," Senator Cash said.

"The Morrison government strongly believes that the best form of welfare is a job."

But Labor employment spokesman Brendan O'Connor said the coalition was attacking unemployed Australians to distract from discord within its own ranks over whether Newstart should be raised.

"Publicly shaming people with new media stories week after week is not helping them get in to work," he said.

"Minister Cash should spend more time helping people get into work than spruiking herself in the media."

Senator Cash said the government had spent billions each year to help train workers and create apprenticeships.

Several coalition backbenchers, including former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, have added their voices to those from Labor, the Greens, business and welfare lobby groups, seniors, doctors, indigenous health workers, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the Country Women's Association in saying the Newstart payment is inadequate.